оземь

Russian

FWOTD – 5 July 2015

Alternative forms

• о земь (o zemʹ), об земь (ob zemʹ) — obsolete

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ob zemь, the latter part an alternative form of *zemľa (“earth, land”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈozʲɪmʲ]
• Homophone: озимь (ozimʹ)

Adverb

о́земь • (ózemʹ)

1. (poetic) against the ground
   • 1872, Лев Толстой (Leo Tolstoy), Кавказский пленник [Prisoner of the Caucasus]‎^[1]:

     Уда́рилась ло́шадь о́земь со всего́ ма́ху,—навали́лась Жи́лину на́ ногу.

     Udárilasʹ lóšadʹ ózemʹ so vsevó máxu,—navalílasʹ Žílinu ná nogu.

     The horse hit the ground with all its weight, and fell on Zhilin's leg.

See also

• на́земь (názemʹ)

References

• Petrova, Z. M., editor (2006), “оземь”, in Словарь русского языка XVIII века [Dictionary of the Russian Language 18th century] (in Russian), volume 16, Saint Petersburg: Nauka, page 212
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*ob zьmь, *ob zьmi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 85